[Wikimedia-l] Swedish Wikipedia reach 1 million (with support of bots)

[Anders Wennersten]

Yesterday sv:wp reached 1 M articles. The one who did the passing was a 
bot generated article of a butterfly 
http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erysichton_elaborata.

The bot behind this article is Lsjbot who creates articles from the 
database  Catalogue of Life 
http://www.catalogueoflife.org/services/res/2011AC_26July.zip which  
(complemented by other databases) which holds data of around 1.5 million 
species. The bot genrates about 5000 new articles per day and has 
generated just under 400 000 of the sv:wps million and continues...

The guy who runs he bot is a member of the Swedish chapters board 
http://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Kandidater_2013/Sverker_Johansson and is in 
his civil life a University teacher. In this capacity he is also a guest 
lecturer at the university of the Phillipines where he stayed the last 
couple of months (and the bot was on hold). He is there active in 
Cebuano-Wikipedia http://ceb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unang_Panid and 
supporting their local community, and he is now running his bot on their 
wikipedia as well as on the Warai-Warai Wikipedia 
http://war.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syahan_nga_Pakli. So perhaps at the end of 
the year these two language versions will also pass the 1 million mark!

Anders
PS out other major botgenerating effort of all lakes in Sweden is also 
making very nice progress, done 25% of all DS